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Podcast: For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture
Episode: Luke Bretherton / (Un)Common Life: Secularity, Religiosity, and the Tension Between Faith and Culture
Description: Jesus's teaching to be in but not of the world (John 17:14-15) has gone from a mode of prophetic witness that could lead to martyrdom, to bumper sticker ethics that either feeds the trolls or fuels the tribe. We're in a moment where the ways that Christianity's influence on culture—and vice versa—are writ large and undeniable. And yet, how are we to understand it? How are we to live in light of it? How does that relationship change from political moment to political moment? In this conversation, ethicist Luke Bretherton (Duke Divinity School) joins Matt Croasmun to refl...